Since the Facebook Development Platform was released in May 2007, more than 12,000 Facebook applications have been launched. The platform provides a very powerful means of distributing your application to potentially millions of users, but it can also be a bit intimidating. These screencasts give you a front-row seat to learn from an experienced Facebook developer. You’ll learn how to qui...

We’ll create the core Rails application running on Facebook, with a form for entering run information and listing you and your friends’ runs. You’ll learn how to: create a Rails application: models, controllers, and views install and configure the facebooker plugin from GitHub register your Rails application with Facebook setup up Tunnlr so Facebook can talk to your local appl...

The Google AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic features on your existing web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. Using this family of APIs you can add a map to your site, include dynamic search controls, or download and mashup feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript. Chris Schalk will provide an introduction to these APIs. His talk will explore various mashups using these APIs and as...

You can write various extensions to OpenOffice.org using Java, and NetBeans IDE makes extending OpenOffice.org very easy. You can both add functionality to OpenOffice.org and create new applications which reuse OpenOffice.org APIs. In this 4-minute demo you discover how to create a new function for the Calc spreadsheet software using NetBeans IDE. Want to learn more? Read this in-depth introduc...

Part 1 dealt with the NetBeans runtime container, part 2 introduced you to the Lookup API, and now in part 3 you see the Window System API in action. The screencast starts with an overview of the previous screencasts, then discusses what a window system is, and then shows you the main API classes in common scenarios.

Summary Every organization should define a standard way for developers to perform common security-related actions - authenticating, access control, validation, encoding, encryption, logging, error handling, and more. In this talk, Jeff discuss the process of establishing a security API for your enterprise, focusing on the most critical methods needed by web application and web service developer...

Have you tried the recently released Earth API yet? Have you been meaning to, but just haven't found the time to check it out? If so, then this talk is for you! We'll be running through a crash course on all the basics of the Earth Browser Plug-in and JavaScript API. We'll be showing off both new and older demos, as well as some of the newly available documentation and developer resources. Brin...